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Ich weiß die Frage wird extrem oft gestellt aber bei jedem gibt's ja andere Baustellen.

Ich hab Donnerstag Prüfung und Fahre automatik. Die letzten Fahrstunden die ich jetzt hatte waren 3h lang und kp obs an meinem ADHS liegt das ich gegen Ende meistens reinscheiße oder ob die blöden Situationen erst dann kommen.

Heute bin ich fast Problemlos gefahren außer Kreisverkehr da hab ich echt sehr Probleme nicht auf den Bürgersteig der Mittelinsel zu kommen weil ich einen SUV fahre und ich immer zu weit einlenke. Die letzten 20min war dann richtig richtig schlecht. Es hat damit angefangen das ich auf die Autobahn bin und der hinter mir rüber ist und dann beschleunigt hat und ich habs zu spät gesehen aber war dann verkrampft und bin nicht vom Gas runter und war auch noch gestresst weil der einfädelungsstreifen endete. Mein Fahrlehrer musste eingreifen und danach hat mein kopf irgendwie abgeschaltet. Dann hab ich dumme Fehler gemacht wie zb zu eng an geparktes auto fahren obwohl ganze Straße frei ist, auf Parkplatz zu eng um die kurve das ich fast ina Gebüsch bin und so "Kleinigkeiten" die halt echt vermeidbar und unnötig sind.

Ich hab echt schiss vor der Prüfung und kp ob das mit den Fehlern die ich mache schaffe. Weil nach einem großen fehler kommt so nh Kettenreaktion bei mir, obwohl man auch sagen muss das wenn ich einen großen fehler mache, das die Prüfung sowieso vorbei ist.

Is there maybe a website or app that helps you learn the theoretical stuff or any advice on how to best learn it? Because my brain can't just read something and remember it

EDIT: I mean the ebook stuff you get when taking a course

My dad is against the idea of me starting freediving because he thinks it's too dangerous. What are the risks and what are the best calming arguments that I can go with to calm him? (I'm 18, I'm probably going to do it anyway)

What the headline says. When was the moment you fell in love with the underwater world and when/how did you discover/heard about scuba diving? Just tell me your story!

I always loved being in the water and swimming, even before I could even properly swim by myself (with 4yo I jumped in the water without water wings and my dad had to pull me up by my hair😭). After learning how to properly swim, I loved diving in pools.

My parents wanted to sign me up for a swimming club and I kinda wanted too, but I had really bad social anxiety (mostly bc I was bullied) and I didn't like the thought of doing something I so deeply love (swimming and being in water) competitively because I would've started to dislike swimming out of fear of not being good enough in competitions.

When I was 12, I always watched the fish in the sea and went diving to collect small hermit crabs (released them again ofc).

When I was 14, we were back in Turkey at a hotel, and early in the morning I swam all the way to the border of the hotels Sea section and saw a GIANT swarm of fish. It was so beautiful. That day I completely fell in love with the ocean and realised that I don't just like swimming, but diving.

October 2023 I went to a hotel with my mom only and we booked one that had a diving school. I was so scared at first but they were so nice! The wife of the owner watched me dive in the pool with equipment and she was impressed that I handled it so well and told her husband that she's impressed with me and the husband wanted to see for himself because he's more experienced. First dive in open water was more of a tourist thing with pictures and would only be one dive. Underwater, the diving instructor (her husband) also held my bcd and steered me in the right direction to take pictures, I didn't to anything except breathing lmao. After that dive he talked to my mom and said that he was also impressed with me because I didn't have problems, wasn't scared of the animals and had a pretty calm breath the whole time. Then they asked if I wanted to take a course and I did and they showed me the practical skills like taking off mask or when my buddy is out of air (but I had to learn the theoretical part by myself and never did a test so I lack MASSIVE knowledge of vital information bc my stay at the hotel was to short). They told me that I should continue diving and could also be an instructor someday.

Idk how much of the pep talk was actually true but they seemed very serious about it and they took very good care of me even after I couldn't dive once because my ears kept getting Pressure and hurt very much.

Sooo basically 3 years ago in tukey I made a cmas* and only did some lessons underwater and how to set everything up for the dive.

I didn't learn the theoretical part like knowledge about how fast I should come up to the surface and all the very very important things. I took no theoretical test. And this week I was in turkey again and did NASDS but the same again, no theoretical part and no test. They sent me a digital book with 200 pages about the theoretical stuff and it's in my language too.

Can I simply catch up on the material after my vacation and before I dive again, or should I get my diving certificate again at a proper diving school at my hometown? Because I feel like I'm cheating and I don't want to die while diving because of missing knowledge or something 😰

EDIT: yes I got open water licence for both of them. It says on the cards too.